The Jocko River flows through the Flathead Indian Reservation in northwestern Montana. For thousands of years the Salish and Pend d'Oreille Indians lived along its banks, finding food and medicine in its plants and fish and in the game hunted on its floodplain. Readers of this story will learn about the history and culture of the river and its meaning in Native life, tradition, and religion. They will also discover the scientific background and social...

Using stories and myths, Dr. Estes discusses the nature of the wild woman archetype, how that instinctual and vital feminine self is muffled or sublimated by society, and how to free it.

In this variation on the classic folktale, a rhyming, rope-skipping, little girl rudely helps herself to the belongings of a genteel family of bears.

In this rhyming version of the familiar folktale, a big bad gator comes after the three pig brothers, Ulysse, Thibodeaux, and Trosclair, in the Louisiana bayou.

In this version of the traditional tale, the duck, the dog, and the cat refuse to help the Little Red Hen make a pizza but do get to participate when the time comes to eat it.

In this Texas-style adaptation of a traditional folktale, a tarantula, mockingbird, and horned toad refuse to help an armadillo prepare a batch of chili but nevertheless expect to eat it when it's ready.

Several animals sleep snugly in Nicki's lost mitten until the bear sneezes.

Banished from the town for making mischief, a little boy and his father are welcomed back when they find a way to make the dreaded giant Abiyoyo disappear. A boy and his father are banished because the father, a magician, has a habit of making things vanish. But when the monster Abiyoyo appears - the father makes Abiyoyo disappear, and all is forgiven. No one wants to hear the little boy play his ukelele anymore...Clink, clunk, clonk. And no one...